Ray Kurzweil thinks we could start living forever by 2029
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Ray Kurzweil thinks we could start living forever by 2029
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#2>, so he's adopted a strict diet with the hope of making it to 2045 and living forever.
He'll almost be 100 then. The chances of a man reaching that age are pretty slim.
Not sure why people pay attention to this guy considering his expertise is in tech, not medicine. His analogies are often mockingly simplistic (no Ray, cell phone adoption rates have nothing to do with medical research and longevity) and seems to be the standard bearer of the kooky futurist stereotype.
I feel my life got a lot easier when I dismissed guys like this and accepted a more dignified idea of dying.
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#3Who wants to live forever? https://youtu.be/_Jtpf8N5IDE
Ray
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#4While I'm totally on board with the idea of making humans live longer or even forever, wishing hard won't make it so.
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#5Who wants to live forever? https://youtu.be/_Jtpf8N5IDE Ray
Well, not everybody is a genius years ahead of their time.
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
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#6Religion for techies. Apocolyptic millenarian beliefs (Singularity)? Check. Transcendence and life after death? Check. Belief in purity and rituals (Vitamins and workout routines)? Check.
Hold a service at the TED Talk, etc. . . .
It might not be the same literal thing as a religion but transhumanist culture sure seems to be serving the same basic human needs.
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#8Ray has been thinking about this stuff for thirty years. He has a knack for getting positive press, which goes back to his time in high school.
His ideas reveal the narrowness of his experience in the world: it appears that he has only the vaguest notions of what the lives of most humans currently on the planet are actually like.
If he understood humanity beyond the confines of Silicon Valley / Route 128 / Davos, he might spend more of his time applying his alleged genius to actual problems which might admit actual solutions.
His fantasy about living forever bespeaks a deep-seated emotional and psychological immaturity.
His idea that we could have life without death is not unlike imagining a world of sunlight but no shadows.
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#9I imagine if it ever comes to that, society is likely to stagnate intellectually. People grow more conservative and reactionary as they grow older (I don't just mean that in the political sense), what would happen if all there is are infinitely old people?
I think young generations are necessary, but if everyone lives forever, there's hardly space in the world for them.
Maybe it's the fate of humanity and a singularity will just mean that we have reached our limits.
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#10When AI takes over, mankind will loose meaning. When mankind looses meaning, extending life will appear pointless.